I just released dgtools, a command line utility to work with the Discogs data dumps. This little endeavor was supposed to be a quick side quest, but it transformed into a rabbit hole.

Discogs is the go-to service for record collectors. They might have one of the biggest databases for physical music releases. On a monthly basis, they release a compressed XML of a subset of their database under a CC0 license. Tools already exist to import them into a PostgreSQL database, but I wanted the flexibility of a custom-built solution. I started building something in a Ruby on Rails app but quickly diverged to Go as I didn't want to pay the ActiveRecord performance cost.